Kinney Brick Quarry maceration 339 (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Huber collection maceration 339

Where: Bernalillo County, New Mexico (35.0° N, 106.7° W: paleocoordinates 0.2° S, 37.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pine Shadow Member (Wild Cow Formation), Virgilian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)

• Manzanita Mountains; Kinney Brick Quarry

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; gray, calcareous shale

• Olive-gray, calcareous shale (Munsell color code 5Y 6/1)

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Collection methods: quarrying, chemical,

Primary reference: D. A. Willard. 1992. Early Virgilian palynofloras from the Kinney Quarry, Manzanita Mountains, New Mexico. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Bulletin 138:49-60 [H. Sims/S. Ostrowski]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 11314: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Summer Ostrowski on 06.08.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Wilsonites vesicatus
uncommon (2-5%)
Schopfipollenites sp.
uncommon (2-5%)
Lalmatiasporites indicus
abundant (>10%)
Cadiospora sphaera
uncommon (2-5%)
Vesicaspora
  -
Pteridopsida
  -
Deltoidospora guennelii
present but not encountered in count
Deltoidospora levis
common (5-10%)
Deltoidospora parvus
uncommon (2-5%)
Polypodiopsida
 Schizaeales - Polypodiidae
Convolutispora sp. Hoffmeister et al. 1955
present but not encountered in count
  -
Verrucosisporites sifatii
present but not encountered in count
  - Polypodiaceae
Florinites
  -
Florinites mediapudens
uncommon (2-5%)
Florinites similis
rare (<2%)
Rhizomaspora
  -
Rhizomaspora radiata
present but not encountered in count
Sphenopsida
  -
Raistrickia
  -
Triquitrites
  -
Triquitrites bransonii
uncommon (2-5%)
Potonieisporites
  -
Potonieisporites simplex
common (5-10%)
Punctatisporites
  -
Punctatisporites sp. PotoniƩ and Kremp 1954
abundant (>10%)
Cyclogranisporites
  -
Lophotriletes
  -
Lophotriletes sp. PotoniƩ and Kremp 1954
rare (<2%)
Alisporites
  -
Alisporites zapfei
uncommon (2-5%)